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Copying a ZFS volume across a server

April 22, 2012 16:04 / Leave a Comment / Magnus Strahlert

Take a snapshot of the volume on source server:

root@source# zfs snapshot zfs_dataset/volume@now

Send the snapshot to the target server. Target zfs_dataset can be different:

root@source# zfs send zfs_dataset/volume@now | ssh target zfs recieve zfs_dataset/volume@now

Clone the snapshot with the supposed name of the new volume

zfs clone zfs_dataset/volume@now zfs_dataset/clone

Promote it, in effect switching place of the snapshot and the volume

zfs promote zfs_dataset/clone

Clean up by removing the now snapshot

zfs destroy zfs_dataset/volume
Posted in: ZFS / Tagged: cross-server, snapshot, ssh, volumes, zfs

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